TY - BOOK ID - 33089455 TI - Dutch Cartesianism and the birth of philosophy of science : from Regius to 's Gravesande PY - 2019 SN - 9783110567823 9783110569698 9783110568264 3110568268 3110567822 3110569698 9783110568288 PB - Boston, Mass. De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Descartes, René KW - Logic. KW - Metaphysics. KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - History. KW - Descartes, René, KW - Metafysica KW - Natuurfilosofie KW - Logica KW - Geschiedenis van de filosofie KW - Nederland KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Logic KW - History of philosophy KW - Netherlands KW - Cartesianismus. KW - Newton, Isaac. KW - Philosophie/17. Jahrhundert. KW - Philosophie/Niederlande. KW - Philosophy/ 17th century. KW - natural philosophy. KW - philosophy/ Netherlands. KW - God KW - Ontology KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Argumentation KW - Deduction (Logic) KW - Deductive logic KW - Dialectic (Logic) KW - Logic, Deductive KW - Intellect KW - Psychology KW - Reasoning KW - Thought and thinking KW - Methodology KW - Descartes, Renatus KW - Cartesius, Renatus KW - Cartesianismus KW - Newton, Isaac KW - Philosophie/17. Jahrhundert KW - Philosophie/Niederlande KW - Philosophy/ 17th century KW - natural philosophy KW - philosophy/ Netherlands KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33089455 AB - How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century ? This book analyzes this issue by considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as well as its legacy in the 18th century. It takes into account the ways in which the disciplines of logic and metaphysics became functional to the justification and reflection on the conceptual premises and the methods of natural philosophy, changing their traditional roles as art of reasoning and as science of being. This transformation took place as a result of two factors. First, logic and metaphysics (which included rational theology) were used to grant the status of indubitable knowledge of natural philosophy. Second, the debates internal to Cartesianism, as well as the emergence of alternative philosophical world-views (such as those of Hobbes, Spinoza, the experimental science and Newtonianism) progressively deprived such disciplines of their foundational function, and they started to become forms of reflection over given scientific practices, either Cartesian, experimental, or Newtonian ER -